Week 7 - Belonging

I got to the Belonging blog (http://hscbelonging.wordpress.com/about/) by following the links for Analysing a Picture Book, but the blog has so much more to offer. "The purpose of this blog is to present simple introductions to texts which might be appropriate for study as related material for New South Wales Higher School Certificate Area of Study, Belonging." There are many links to other websites, resources for other areas of study, plus links to short stories, poems, novels, graphic novels, films, etc.

The Short Story Finder link is a customized Google search tool which searches for full-text, or full-audio short stories. It's a great way to discover short stories for use in class without wasting time. The link can also be given to students to find their own short stories related to the unit or lesson.

The post for picture books contains information about the grammar of visual design, a book by a picture book author, links to websites (Picturing Books and Webquest Direct) with many teaching resources, useful lists and details about the elements of a picture book, and a video about postmodernism for use with lessons about the postmodern picture book. Using the Picture Book category limiter also reveals a number of posts dealing with individual graphic novels and picture books.

This blog offers valuable resources not just for texts to study, but also resources to build the field before starting on a major text, or for finding texts which enhance the main text.